Re: Iris pallida dalmatica

In a message dated 97-01-16 09:27:22 EST, you write:

>The masterful garden writer Elizabeth Lawrence once
>wrote something to the effect that demure southern ladies in the U.S. would
>wage great wars over who was growing the true "pallida dalmatica."  I should
>have had better sense than to have brought this subject up, and I do
>apologize for this lengthy message.  If I have written anything that
experts,
>such as Mike Lowe, think is incorrect, please comment!  Clarence Mahan

Very interesting stuff - now I have a better understanding of why it has been
so hard for me to figure out what to call my old blue flags.  I ain't hardly
no demure southern lady, but wonder if the 'I. pallida' which grows wild
everywhere around here at old home sites is mostly one strain or if it is
likely to be or possibly many or a few?  

Linda Mann lmann76543@aol.com east Tennessee USA
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